Word: metrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive to adopt metric, Americans are dragging their feet...
...blowouts, platform fires and other accidents. The world's largest oil spill, in fact, occurred in the Caribbean when a well being drilled by Pemex, the Mexican national petroleum company, blew on June 3, 1979. Before it was capped 290 days later, it had poured some 475,000 metric tons of oil into the sea. Scientists still cannot say what the effects were on the rich fisheries, coral reefs or sea-grass beds of the Caribbean basin. But they agree that the beautifully delicate world of the Caribbean could not readily withstand a repetition of that environmental disaster...
...case involved the supertanker Salem, registered in Liberia, which offloaded 180,000 metric tons of Kuwaiti oil at the South African port of Durban in late December 1979. In Parliament last week, the South African government acknowledged that it had paid $45 million for the oil. The ship then sailed for Europe but sank mysteriously in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal on Jan. 17,1980. The trouble was that the cargo it had left in Durban had actually been owned all along by the Shell International trading company, and the Salem was supposed to have been carrying...
...bilateral, linguistic "dialogue" has been markedly one-sided. French who wish to communicate with Americans must still nearly always do so in English. Parochialism keeps Americans well insulated; most do not possess even a working knowledge of another language, and few have felt any compunction to learn even the metric system, despite its use by nearly every other nation on the ever-shrinking planet...
With eight lanes and a 400 meter oval, the track will give Harvard an NCAA regulation loop for the first time since the metric system became the international track standard...